Techies limit screen time for kids, how a gap year can help, and more top insights
This week, the Daily Rundown is keeping you current on the world of work and the big ideas that will shape 2019 (and beyond). Read on and join the conversation.
Tech parents are keeping their kids away from screens: Parents in technology are growing concerned about the perils of screen time for their children, says The New York Times. Workers at some of the most prominent tech firms — the very ones that helped make tech as alluring as it is — say they use draconian rules at home to curb the addictive qualities of tablets and phones. Experts have been sounding the alarm in recent years over phone addiction and its effects on child development and learning.
The case for a mid-life gap year: We think of extended trips — backpacking through Europe or hiking in South America — as the stuff of young adulthood. But more of us should consider a mid-life break, argues Sightsavers CEO Caroline Harper. After she was laid off from a lucrative job in the energy industry in her mid-40s, Harper hit the road, traveling everywhere from Antarctica to Pakistan. The experience opened her eyes to skills and interests she didn’t realize she had, and propelled her shift from the private sector to the nonprofit world.
Sweating the day a robot replaces you? Fear not! There'll be plenty of jobs when our AI overlords take over, Business Insider predicts. Consider becoming a Voice UX Designer, the better to make the machines sound more like us. As a "Joy Adjutant" you could coach fellow humans to appreciate that less is more. Bigger ambitions? Evidently companies will need a Chief Purpose Planner to "define and articulate their contribution to society." See? Nothing to worry about.
Don’t break your days into hours — break your weeks into days. Follow in the footsteps of billionaire Spanx founder Sara Blakely and try dividing your schedule by weeks, not just days. “Wednesday is always meeting day,” she says. “Monday is my think day. I usually clear my calendar for Monday, unless something urgent comes up.” She’s not the only entrepreneur embracing a weekly cadence: Modular Robotics CEO Eric Schweikardt believes the unusual schedule prevents wasting time and mental energy toggling between different tasks.
Your doctor’s next prescription: electricity? Scientists say using electric currents to stimulate the body’s nervous system could be used to treat everything from arthritis to alcoholism. Over 100,000 people have already been treated for drug-resistant epilepsy using a device that applies electrical impulses to the brain at regular intervals, and researchers in the U.K. aim to use electric currents to restore bladder control to patients with spinal injuries.
Idea of the Day: Don’t dwell on your mistakes, writes ActOne Group founder and CEO Janice Bryant Howroyd — learn from them.
"Given that you can’t change the past, you must employ it in the betterment of your life by reflecting upon situations after your emotions have cooled enough to see ‘what really happened’ clearly. "
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5 年Well, robotics will eventually decrease employment in all sectors for the minority majorly in the initial stage and slowly start taking upper bracket employment as we advance in implementation of AI with increasing discoveries in the field of technology in this era of digitalization. There are huge no of co - curricular activities to do rather than spending 90% of it on screens. This should worry us more than it really does. Keeping in mind, glass technology has already been implemented, only can't yet be made public for use, mental health and eye sense shall start getting effected in ways beyond 70% of the people's imaginations. I don't think in my opinion human race can stop itself from getting depleted and gradually vanish one day. Even parallel universes or milky way galaxy planet can save mankind from non-existence.
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5 年Limiting screen time is definitely the need of the hour. However it may backfire terribly given the level of device addiction. What I have succeeded to do instead is to get my kid involved in other activities like learning a musical instrument, playing a sport or a game, long walks, read a book, host youth meetings at home & discuss relevant issues. It has worked & now my kid is involved with so many people that device usage is controlled.